Visits
Brazilian minister of science, Sergio Rezende, centre, visited CERN on 28 September. He toured the cavern of the CMS experiment with spokesperson, Jim Virdee, left, and John Ellis, right, adviser to the director-general. He also visited the test facility for the Compact Linear Collider Study and met with CERN’s director-general, Rolf Heuer, as well as Brazilian scientists working at CERN.
Reinhard Klang of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research (left), Klaus Schneeberger, Chairman EBG MedAustron Board (centre right), and Hannes Weninger of the Austrian Parliament, came to CERN on 14 October to participate in the board meeting of EBG MedAustron. Before the meeting they toured the CMS experiment, with spokesperson, Jim Virdee, and visited the CERN Control Centre and Linac3. MedAustron is a centre for ion-therapy and research planned for Wiener Neustadt in Austria, with co-operation from CERN.
On 2 November, Ian Taylor, chairman of the UK’s Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, (centre), visited CERN. Like other recent visitors, he toured CMS with spokesperson Jim Virdee (left) and technical co-ordinator Austin Ball. After lunch he visited the CERN Control Centre, where he met the head of the Beams Department, Paul Collier, and British colleagues, together with John Ellis and Steve Myers, CERN’s director of accelerators and technology.
Twenty-seven engineers involved in the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), to be built at the heavy-ion research centre GSI near Darmstadt, spent three days at CERN on 14–16 October on a visit organized by Horst Wenninger (front row, second from left). The main goal was to allow the German engineers to meet their CERN counterparts, but the timing meant that it was also possible to include a tour of the ALICE experiment prior to the restart of the LHC.